Blade Runner 2049’s Ryan Gosling will star in Neil Armstrong biopic

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Gosling will star in a film adaptation of James Hansen's First Man: A Life of Neil A. Armstrong.
The film will be the second collaboration between Gosling and director
Damien Chazelle, who directed Gosling in the recent musical film La La Land. Gosling and Chazelle were both nominated for Golden Globes for La La Land and are favorites for Oscar nominations in the new year.

Although Chazelle may seem like an unlikely pick to helm a science-y Armstrong biography, both La La Land and his previous film, Whiplash,
have explored the devastating personal cost of enormous ambitions. And
no ambition is larger than being the first human on the Moon. Famously,
the drive to meet Kennedy's end-of-decade lunar landing deadline
destroyed families and marriages all throughout the burgeoning space
industry—though, interestingly, not Armstrong's (he remained married to
his first wife Janet until 1993). The test pilot and moonwalker passed away in August 2012.

In addition to La La Land, Gosling has starred in films such as Drive, The Nice Guys, the forthcoming Blade Runner 2049, and roughly 10 billion “Hey girl” Internet memes. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Half-Nelson, in which he proved it was possible to do drugs and still be absurdly good-looking.